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Love your drivechain and it will love you.

Unless you’re a tiger or maybe a vampire, pointy teeth are not your friend – especially when they’re on your bicycle. The design of most conventional bicycles and current eBikes relies upon a drivechain that contacts metal on metal and leads sooner or later…

7 March 20200Likes 0Comments

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A Utah Trip Gallery 2019

15 February 20200Likes 0Comments

Cross/Gravel eBike Life MTB

Transform your riding: do it at night

You get home from work, it’s dark outside and the wind is howling. The last thing you want to do is go for a bike ride. Yet, like so many things in life if you can find the energy/motivation, it has its rewards. There’s…

13 February 20200Likes 0Comments

MTB Travel

Biking the South Downs Way

The South Downs Way is something we’ve all heard of in Lewes – it goes right past the town, or through it if you want to go that way, and runs a total of 100 miles from Winchester to Eastbourne. The SDW is well…

11 February 20200Likes 0Comments

eBike Life MTB

Temptation, slippery slopes and how getting up them is easier on an eBike

This is what happened when one of our favorite customers lent his eBike to his friend. Jason “the eBiking Giant” suggested Patrick “the Muddy Cyclist” try his Trek eBike to see just how it might alter his riding experience. The answer is a “a…

21 January 20200Likes 0Comments

Life MTB News Travel

A mountain biker’s pilgrimage – the Cycleshack holiday to Utah and Arizona

One of our regular customers joined us for the annual Cycleshack/Deers Leap family holiday to Utah and Arizona, to ride some of the most famous trails in the history of mountain biking. Iconic is an overused word, but that’s what they are… It’d be…

4 January 20200Likes 0Comments

eBike Life MTB

Jason, the e-Biking Giant

This is a little film put together by one of our much-loved customers – Jason “the eBiking Giant” (and he’s not kidding). https://youtu.be/GkTTaClbMiYAt nearly seven feet tall and around twenty two stone there’s no denying his giant stature. A career playing rugby at a…

18 December 20190Likes 0Comments

Cross/Gravel Life MTB

Keeping riding through the winter: join us!

It’s hard to find the motivation to ride your bike when it’s cold and wet outside. There are too many temptations to stay cosy inside. And yet… if you can find that motivation you’ll almost certainly never regret it. Once you’re out it’s never…

18 November 20190Likes 0Comments

eBike

Electric Bikes – An In depth Look

There can be a perception that e-bikes are like motorbikes—just climb on and there’s no pedalling needed. However, that isn’t the case. Electric bikes are normal bicycles that have been manufactured or modified to incorporate the assistance of an electric motor. It’s more…

28 October 20190Likes 0Comments

Life MTB Road Tech

Looking after your disc brakes and avoiding the howl

Working in the bike shop, one of the questions we get asked most frequently is: “why are my disc brakes sooooo noisy?” Here I’m going to try and explain how to take care of them and why they can become real howlers. Disc brakes…

26 June 20190Likes 0Comments

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